Universities large and small, along with their students and leaders, are joining the Herculean effort to vaccine more than 328 million Americans against COVID.
The University of Alabama is allowing its staff, faculty and student workers to receive benefits beyond the expiration of the national program that ended in December.
Public and private four-year institutions hold steady in Clearinghouse report, sustaining setbacks among freshmen but making gains in graduate students. Two-year colleges don't fare as well.
Two states used CARES Act COVID relief funds to close broadband gaps in higher education, including providing students with digital devices and Wi-Fi hotspots, and enhancing learning-management systems.
Growing number of Hispanic Americans seeking news in Spanish and English motivates University of Arizona to launch master's degree in bilingual journalism.
COVID has reduced Hispanic student enrollment at SUNY Orange, and the college plans to use guided pathways and bilingual academic coaching to bring them back.
